Word: faking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least one part of society: the pirates who manufacture counterfeit merchandise. The USA for Africa project, in which 46 rock stars donated their services to help finance a famine relief fund, has sued six manufacturers and retailers who have allegedly earned as much as $2 million from selling fake souvenir T shirts and sweatshirts. "They're contemptible, with no morals whatsoever," declared Jay Cooper, USA for Africa's principal lawyer. "They're taking money from the people of Africa." Last week a federal judge in Los Angeles issued an order forcing several Southern California store owners to stop selling...
...project hopes to raise a total of as much as $100 million, with at least $15 million coming from the sale of souvenir shirts. The fake merchandise has turned up in cities all across the U.S. Some of the bogus shirts can easily be spotted because a wheat-stalk symbol appears in the first letter of the word Africa instead of the last one. In many cases, the offending merchants have been turned in by consumers. Says Cooper: "People are absolutely outraged at this thing...
...would have gone and spent 15 dollars on a fake I.D. in New York or something, but I made my own on my Mac instead," said one freshman. Another freshman said that his roommate borrowed his Mac to make a fake I.D. on it. He refused to explain exactly how, saying only, "It was an elaborate process...
This process can be well worth it, says another freshman. "I have another fake I.D., but I made one on the Macintosh to back it up. Now that I have two different I.D.'s with the same birthdate and everything I can get served absolutely anywhere. Well, maybe not the Pro, but almost, anywhere...
...stronger U.S. guarantee of its security than that provided by a 1954 treaty. As long as American troops are on its soil, Honduras seems safe. Its fear is that the Americans will leave--and the next tanks clanking north from the border will be driven by real rather than fake Sandinistas...